After leaving some troops in Lushun, Liu Jun led his troops to continue north after dawn.

Leshun to Dalian is less than a hundred miles away. Walking from the sea, the fleet appeared in Qingniwa Port before noon.

At noon on the sixth day of the fifth month of the 13th year of Chongzhen, Liu Jun led more than 20,000 troops and more than 100 boats to the Qingniwa City. At this time, the small Qingniwa City had not received any news that Lushun was captured by the Ming army. Only 500 Manchu and Mongolian flag soldiers were stationed in the city. When a white sail appeared and the sun and moon flags appeared on the fleet, the Tartars in the city were stunned.

You look at me and I look forward to you for a long time before you ring the alarm bell crazily and hurriedly close the city gate.

Then the hundreds of soldiers stood on the top of the city and watched the Ming army's fleet enter the port without any haste under the guidance of the pilot ship.

Liu Jun stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the fortress. If there were no cannons and a sufficient number of troops, hundreds of defenders would be able to hold on to this fortress, and perhaps they could still stand for the arrival of reinforcements. But for the current Nine-Headed Birds, the fleet at the port has more than a thousand cannons, and this castle with only a few general cannons could not withstand the Nine-Headed Birds' attack.

"Go to Jinzhou to report the news!" The Tartars in the castle did not lose their courage and did not escape. Instead, they were only afraid that a few cavalrymen would go out of the city to report the news.

Many veterans on the warship who participated in the Taiwan War were still smiling and cheering up the recruits who participated in the war for the first time, so that they should not be too nervous.

"There is nothing to worry about. The Tartars are only those. No matter how powerful they are, they can still be powerful for the red-haired people? But no matter how powerful the red-haired people are, we will beat them to the point of urination and surrender. You are waiting to see, there is no such small fortress, even a cannon, it is like a sheep under the mouth of a tiger."

During this campaign against Liao, Liu Jun specially dispatched new troops from Wuchang and Changsha towns to come. First, they were to train troops in actual combat, and secondly, they were to strengthen their control over these two new troops. Some new soldiers were drawn out, and many veterans were assigned to the left-behind soldiers in the three towns.

"Such a small fortress, only a few hundred Tartars, it's still very fierce. He didn't surrender." Seeing that the city gate was closed, he didn't surrender. Fu Shan smiled. "There is no need to waste your saliva with them. Just bombard them and knock down the city wall."

Liu Jun nodded to the plan and agreed, "Send several landing craft to land immediately after shelling."

A small city like Qingniwa has been breached several times in recent years, and the city wall has several colors, both old and new, and the entire city wall is like many patches being put into it.

At this time, Qingniwa City was like a beggar full of patches, but in front of him was a noble knight armed with gorgeous armor all over his body, armed to his teeth.

Yunyang is one of the six 74-cannon double-deck battleships of Jiutou Bird. After receiving the instructions of the order, the battleship did not need to turn the angle to face the city, and directly faced the bow of the ship to the castle.

The 64-pound heavy artillery on the bow of the ship was replaced by the Ming army's unit of measurement, which was a total of 48 kilograms of shells.

"Use the flowering bullet first!"

The gunman on the Yunyang took a few glances at the small city and said.

"Don't hit the city. Just aim outside the city gate and shoot a shot."

The captain of the Yunyang ship came over and said, and then explained, "There are many innocent people in the city."

The 64-pound heavy artillery on the warship was originally used to deal with close combat on the sidelines and to shoot socks, but the Nine-Headed Blossom Bullets are now very advanced in research, so they are also used to load bombs. Especially since their ships are now in the port, the small town of Liu is too close. However, if this 48-pound flowering bomb is in the city and explodes, a hundred lead bombs weighing half a kilogram explode inside, and the lethality is still very strong.

Since the Marquis has an order, the people in Lushun, Jinzhou will not be removed for the time being, so it is better to avoid killing and injuring the people first.

After carefully observing the distance between the city gates, the Dutch gunman carefully measured and calculated with the guns. Finally, he said a few words to the gunman who was also Dutch. The gunman immediately took out a disc-shaped fuze, which was a new delay fuze improved on the original wooden fuze.

Although wooden fuses have a great effect on explosive bombs, it is difficult to reach consistency between wooden fuses. Some burn fast and some burn slowly. For explosive bombs that require time control, this greatly reduces the power of explosive bombs, either early explosion or slow explosion.

Finally, the Firefox has developed a new paper rolled fuze, which is uniformly wrapped in gunpowder during the rolling process. This paper fuze has excellent consistent performance, but it also has a series of new problems such as reliability problems caused by poor moisture resistance and insufficient strength and easy breakage.

Although improvements such as applying shellac to the surface to prevent moisture and increasing the thickness of the paper barrel were later adopted, the problem has never been completely solved.

Finally, a craftsman came up with a new solution, namely a metal disc fuze.

This new fuse uses a small hollow metal disc engraved with a ruler to represent the original conical wooden shield and paper fuse. The disc is equipped with a ring-shaped delay medicine channel and a threaded hollow metal tube below. When installed, it can be screwed directly into the fuze hole on the shell.

When setting the detonation time, the disc fuze no longer needs to cut the length of the fuze, but only needs to make a small hole in the thin metal covering the circular medicine channel on the disc.

There are long-range cannon fuses with a delay scale of one to fifteen seconds on the disc, and there are also three different specifications of fuses with a short range of one to five seconds and a medium range of one to ten seconds. The corresponding scale of the holes is the exact detonation time of the fuse.

At the same time, due to the existence of a circular medicine channel, even if the fuze is facing the opposite direction of the muzzle, there will be no accident of premature explosion caused by gunpowder gas blowing the delayed medicine into the inside of the bullet body. Therefore, the reliability and convenience of use of the disc fuze have been greatly increased compared with the previous various delayed fuzes.

The gunner made a hole in the metal fuse on the disc according to the gunman's request, set the explosion time, and then fixed the slap together with the launching medicine bag. A huge shell with a wooden base was clamped up with iron pliers, and several people carried it into the barrel.

Nowadays, after the fire gun used fixed-loading ammunition, the artillery also used fixed-loading ammunition. The launching medicine bag and the shell were tied together, and a wooden base was added, which greatly increased the efficiency of launching the gun, especially for launching explosive bombs. Before this, when loading the blasting ammunition, the gunners should be careful not to turn the projectile fuze hole towards the inside of the barrel when loading again; and after the fixed-loading shells appeared, because the fuze hole was backwards to the drug bag when packaging, so just simply load the medicine bag into the barrel bore, which greatly simplifies the loading steps and improves the safety of launch.

In terms of firearm use, the Nine-Headed Bird has actually reached the level of a Western military power.

And their enemy, the Qing army had just learned to build red artillery artillery for a few years. Only when the army was dispatched would they carry red artillery artillery, a small city like Qingniwa. They had neither the cannons to defend the city nor the experience of dealing with cannon attacking the city.

They still adopted the traditional combat method, and their attacks were protected by cavalry and artillery, and defending the city was even far inferior to the Ming army more than ten years ago.

"This shot will make the Tartars truly understand what a brand new way of war is."

After some preparation, the heavy artillery fired, and a bomb weighing 48 pounds roared out of the cannon chamber, smashing towards Qingniwa City like a meteor.

On the top of the city, a group of Qing soldiers dragging pig tails listened to the sharp whistling sound and looked at the huge shells that were coming, and all knelt down. They kissed the bricks under their feet.

"God, please forgive us!"

They had never seen such a giant ship, nor did they see such a fierce cannon. They were in awe and thought it was the anger brought down by the gods.

The huge shells exploded less than ten feet away from the city gate. Countless lead bombs exploded on all sides, many bricks were blown off by the city wall, and even one battlement was blown down, and the city gate was blown out with several holes as big as fists.

As the shells exploded, dozens of landing craft each carried dozens of soldiers and rushed to the dock.

No one intercepted them, and they quickly landed. A group of soldiers rushed to the dock and rushed towards the city gate. At this time, the warships in the port fired again. This time, they fired solid bullets, with hundreds of 32-pound long cannons fired in a round of volleys.

After a swaying mountain, a rumbling sound came from the smoke everywhere. A wall of Qingniwa small town almost completely collapsed.

At this time, the soldiers who landed had already begun to accelerate, only a few hundred steps away from the exposed gap.

On the warships, soldiers rushed to witness this spectacular scene. Those soldiers who had experienced the Southeast Sea Battle were already used to it, and those who had never seen it, especially many new soldiers who had not even fought, especially those who had been transferred from Wuchang Town and Changsha Town. Seeing a cannon shooting, the city wall was more than two meters high. The mouth was so huge that it forgot to close it.

"Just try it!"

On the flagship of the Sea God, a group of officers watched all this easily.

"Facts have proved that when there are cannons of giant ships, the traditional way of war has fallen behind. Our nine-headed birds will be invincible and will never win!" Many officers who have become cannon fans shouted.

Some officers are also quite rational, "We will indeed have a huge advantage with giant ships and cannons, but it is not time to be rude. With cannons, the city has lost its effect on us. But giant ships can only be at sea. The larger the cannon, the less convenient it moves, and the requirements for supply will be very high. Don't forget that the Qing army has a large number of cavalry and has very strong cavalry skills. What they have is the maneuverability we lack."

Liu Jun said appreciatively, "That's right, the Qing people have cavalry and shooting, we have cannons, and each has their own strengths. Overall, we have the advantage. Because of the advantage of siege, we must play to our strengths and avoid weaknesses. Don't confront the Qing army head-on. We will give full play to the advantages of our warships and giant cannons, move quickly from the sea, avoid the real and attack the virtual, use warships to transport troops, seize a loophole and go ashore to beat him, leave after the battle, and do not entangle their cavalry."

"We have cannons, why should we be afraid of him?"

"Of course it's not fear, it's just tactics." Liu Jun could still see the shortcomings of his army. His firearms were sharp, but in terms of close combat, they were definitely not as brave as the Qing army. Those soldiers who did not farm and train specifically should not be underestimated.

In fact, with gunpowder, the city wall has become more and more limited in defense. Not to mention bombarding with cannons, you can break the city without cannons. You don’t even need to make any large shells. You just dig a coffin and fill it with gunpowder, then dig a hole under the city wall, stuff it in and ignite it and detonate it, and you can still break the city.

However, if you bomb the city like this, you will need more gunpowder, and secondly, you will have to dig holes to get close to the city wall, which will be a bit troublesome. Cannons can bombard the city wall several miles away.

Although bombing a city is more dangerous than bombing a city, it has greater casualties, but its technical content is low. It is troublesome to create artillery and transport it, but which one of the gunpowder companies can't make it.

However, it seems that I have never heard of anyone using this method of bombing the city wall. Maybe I haven't thought of this application yet, but it will appear at the latest.

In the future, if the city wall wants to continue to play its role, you have to use artillery to defend the city wall. You have to build a cannon on the city wall, and you have to guard the city wall. You have to build a cannon on the city, and there must be a certain number of cannons, so that the attacking side can hardly attack. When the city is equipped with artillery to defend, it is an indestructible fortress.

However, there are still few people who use artillery to defend the city, and there are very few. For example, when Liu Jun attacked Relanzhe and Chiqiancheng, there were only thirty gates on the fortress.

You have to suffer losses before you think of improvement.

However, now, these cities with shortage of cannons are a good opportunity for Liu Jun to attack the cannons.

Half of the city wall in Qingniwa was knocked down, and by the way, more than a dozen Tartars in the city were killed. Even many people were affected by the fish in the city. Before the remaining Tartars in the city came to their senses, the landing soldiers of the Nine-Headed Bird had already rushed to the front of the city.

A group of Tartars rushed out on horseback and waved their swords.

But what greeted them was a series of gunfire, and the sound of gunfire was constantly being fired. After using flintlock flint, the firing speed of the gun increased again.

After a row of gunmen fired the guns, they automatically retreated to the back, and the second row stepped forward. The teams went forward one by one, shooting continued. The fierce Manchu and Mongolian cavalry fell one by one, and when they rushed to the front, they were all dead, leaving only a few unshot horses running with their owner's body.

"Come away the guns and keep moving forward!" an officer shouted loudly, and the soldiers put away their guns and began to move forward to the small town with a large hole open.

Until they crossed the big hole and entered the city, no one stopped them.

Most of the four hundred Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers were killed or injured, and the remaining people were not really afraid of death. Facing the inconfrontational Ming army, they dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. (To be continued.)
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